The Metanexus Network began as a global constellation of interdisciplinary communities exploring foundational questions at the intersection of science and spirituality. Growing out of the Local Societies Initiative and later the Metanexus Global Network Initiative, these groups brought together scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars to engage questions of meaning, personhood, consciousness, and human purpose beyond the limits of any single discipline.
The original Network focused on two core commitments: dialogue between scientific and spiritual traditions, and transdisciplinary inquiry into the assumptions shaping human understanding. These communities served as spaces for rigorous conversation, intellectual experimentation, and resistance to fragmentation driven by excessive specialization.
Today, Metanexus carries this legacy forward while expanding its scope. As cultural, technological, and existential pressures reshape what it means to be human, the Network is evolving into a broader ecology of communities exploring new ways of being human. Building on its foundational roots, the renewed Network emphasizes lived inquiry, experimentation, and creative engagement with emerging forms of knowledge, practice, and community.
The Metanexus Network is no longer only a site of dialogue, but a space for shared exploration—where inherited questions meet present realities, and new possibilities are allowed to take shape.
Metanexus Groups
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Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva (SESBE)/Spanish Society of Biology and Evolution
Facultad de Teologia de Granada and Campus Universitario de Cartuja Granada With the goal of founding a group of scholars, students and others interested in the study of science and religion throughout the region, this effort brings together members of the Facultad de Teología de Granada with expertise in electronics, paleontology, biology, chemistry, theology and
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Society for Philosophical Study of Religion, Science and Asian Thought (SPSRSAT)
West Chester UniversityWest Chester, Pennsylvania The core-planning group of SPSRSAT consists of members from faculties of philosophy, physics, communication, peace and conflict studies, and ethnic studies of West Chester University, as well as members of the faculties of history and sociology of science, Chinese, and the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of
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Society for Religion, Science, and Technology Studies at Yale
Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology Yale University Divinity School New Haven, Connecticut As a Local Societies Initiative grantee, beginning in 2006, the Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology (IRST) will reach beyond the Divinity School to promote exchange with scientific, technological, medical, ecological, theological, ethical professionals and pastoral services as a membership society. Current